Forget Vibe Coding, Canva Just Introduced Vibe Designing for All

At Canva Create 2025, the Australia-based design company launched Visual Suite 2.0, its ‘largest product drop’ since founding the company in 2012. The event at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles showcased new features that enhance creativity and productivity for Canva’s 230 million monthly active users. 

Central to Visual Suite 2.0 is a fundamental shift in how projects are structured. Historically, different design types required separate files. Now, Canva is introducing the ability to consolidate multiple formats – presentations, documents, brainstorms, social media assets, print layouts, and even websites – into one single, unified design file. The new capability is called Visual Suite in One Design.

“For the last decade, we’ve been bringing productivity and creativity closer together,” said CEO Melanie Perkins. “At Canva Create, we are extraordinarily excited to take that to the absolute next level.”

She explained that a marketing campaign no longer needs to live in fragmented documents. “Your brief and your brainstorming, your budget and your pitch… can literally be in the same design,”  said Perkins. She added that the same approach applies to other use cases where the brief, brainstorming notes, budget, and pitch can now all be within a design.

“Rather than juggling separate files for financial statements, forecasts, and executive presentations, teams can now get on the same page.”

Will Canva Sheets be a Game-Changer? 

Data is a key part of visual storytelling. Whether for charts, reports, dashboards or infographics, data is at the core of all this. Canva is now striking the right chord to put this to use effectively. Platforms were either data-centric or visual-centric. Now, Canva is bringing both together in one platform, which even Google and Microsoft have only partially tackled all this while with Sheets and Excel.  

Addressing what its co-founder and chief product officer, Cameron Adams, referred to as a “key missing piece” in visual storytelling, Canva is introducing native spreadsheet capabilities with Canva Sheets. Recognising that data interaction can cause anxiety for many, he stated that Sheets is designed to be visual-first, allowing for images and even Canva designs within cells. 

It deeply integrates AI through features like Magic Write for data generation, Magic Insights for automated analysis and chart suggestions, and Magic Formulas, which translates plain language requests into spreadsheet functions. 

Adams further explained that Canva Sheets provides the data layer that powers the rest of Canva. He said that sheets are fully interoperable with every other design in Canva, including presentations and docs.  Using Data Connectors, it can also integrate data from platforms like Google Analytics, HubSpot, Snowflake, and Statista.

Adobe Express, a competitor to Canva, offers tools for creating visually appealing charts and graphs, such as pie charts, bar graphs, line charts, and progress charts. These features are ideal for presentations, infographics, and documents but lack traditional spreadsheet functionalities like those in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. 

Canva Sheets will now be competing with Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, as these two also offer generative AI capabilities, where users can get insights in natural language.

This new data layer powers further innovations like Magic Studio at Scale.  It leverages Sheets to apply Canva’s AI tools – like translation or resizing – across batches of content simultaneously, streamlining repetitive tasks. 

The platform also fully integrates the sophisticated data visualisation capabilities of Flourish (acquired in 2022) into Magic Charts, enabling users to create interactive, dynamic charts linked directly to their Sheets data and embed them across any Canva design.

Anyone can Code 

Perkins said that Canva wanted to democratise coding’s “incredible superpowers” like interactivity and automation. To achieve this, the company introduced Canva Code, which allows users to generate functional, interactive widgets – think calculators, quizzes, or maps – using simple text prompts.

Perkins described the internal excitement about the product, saying, “It enables you to go from an idea to interactivity with just a simple prompt in just a couple of minutes…”

She explained that these custom elements can now be directly embedded into Canva projects.

Meanwhile, Adams shared that it began as an internal AI tool to create interactive widgets that helped in product prototyping, and has now been turned into a feature for users.

Design with Canva AI

Canva is also simplifying how users interact with AI. A new feature, accessible directly from the homepage, introduces a conversational interface. Users can chat with the AI to generate initial designs by specifying the type, context, and even uploading reference images. 

This conversational approach extends to image generation and editing, allowing users to prompt for images based on style or structure and then refine them through chat, like asking to change an object’s color, before final edits in the main editor. 

“You can now take AI-generated designs and go critical last mile inside Canva’s editor,” Adams said. “We were pretty excited about how this will completely transform the future of work and really streamline designs.”